FTC Hires Privacy Researcher Ashkan Soltani as Chief Technologist

The FTC has hired Ashkan Soltani, a highly regarded and respected technologist and privacy researcher, as its chief technologist. The move is the latest in a string of interesting hires by the Federal Trade Commission. In 2009 the agency hired Chris Soghoian, a privacy and security researcher, as...

Carrier IQ Hires a Chief Privacy Officer

Carrier IQ, a startup heavily bruised last fall by harsh criticism of its handset diagnostic software, today announced it’s hired a high-profile lawyer as its Chief Privacy Officer. According to a news release, Magnolia Mansourkia Mobley, a CIPP and former Verizon executive, will be tasked with...

Elections 2012 and DDoS attacks in Russia

Vitaly Kamluk As Eugene Kaspersky had written earlier, we were expecting new DDoS attacks on resources covering the Russian presidential election. So, as the country went to the polls on 4 March, we were on the lookout for new DDoS attacks. We were surprised to hear a news report from one mass...

Latest Security Flaw in Skype Enables IP address & Location Tracking

Latest Security Flaw in Skype Enables IP address & Location Tracking The serious breach in the widely-used, internet video chat program means that any evil computer nerd could easily hunt down users' whereabouts, according to a study co-authored by an NYU-Poly professor. The flaw in Skype could...

Sony hacked again - 93,000 accounts compromised with brute-force attack

Sony hacked again - 93,000 accounts compromised with brute-force attack Sony has warned users against a massive bruteforce attack against PlayStation and Sony network accounts. The attack – which used password and user ID combinations from an unidentified third-party source – succeeded in...

Supreme Court of Pakistan website defaced by Zombie_Ksa

Supreme Court of Pakistan website defaced byZombieKsa The official website of Pakistan's Supreme Court has been hacked.Visitors to the website found derogatory and abusive remarks about the court and Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry. Earlier the Supreme Court website was hacked by two boy...

Supreme Court of Pakistan website defaced by Zombie_Ksa

Supreme Court of Pakistan website defaced by ZombieKsa The official website of Pakistan's Supreme Court has been hacked.Visitors to the website found derogatory and abusive remarks about the court and Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry. Earlier the Supreme Court website was hacked by two bo...

Sony Hires Ex- Homeland Security Official after PlayStation Hack

Sony Hires Ex- Homeland Security Official after PlayStation Hack Sony has hired a former official at the US Department of Homeland Security for the new post of chief information security officer, months after a massive hacking attack leaked information on 100 million user accounts on its games...

Former DHS Cybersecurity Chief Reitinger Named Sony CISO

Former Department of Homeland Security cyber-security chief Philip Reitinger has been named as the new executive vice president and Chief Information Security Officer of Sony Corporation. In his new position, Reitinger will be in charge of global information security and privacy at the electronic...

Texas law enforcement Hacked by #Antisec and #FreeAnons - 3GB of data leaked

Texas law enforcement Hacked by Antisec and FreeAnons - 3GB of data leaked Texas Police Chiefs Association Website hacked by Anonymous Hackers for Antisec Operation. Hacker deface their website and post 3GB of data on it with Message "In retaliation for the arrests of dozens of alleged Anonymous...

ISI Chief - Ahmed Shuja Pasha Email ID hacked by Indian Hacker

ISI Chief - Ahmed Shuja Pasha Email ID hacked by Indian Hacker An Indian Hacker "creatrix" Claim to hack into the email id of ISI Chief Ahmed Shuja Pasha's .The Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence more commonly known as Inter-Services Intelligence or simply by its initials ISI, is...

ICANN Hires Def Con Founder Jeff Moss as Security Chief !

ICANN Hires Def Con Founder Jeff Moss as Security Chief ! Jeff Moss, the hacker better known as "The Dark Tangent," has been named Vice President and Chief Security Officer of ICANN, the non-profit corporation that manages the Internet's names and numbering infrastructure. He is the founder of DE...

Siemens Assisted with Stuxnet's Development, claimed by Iran !

Siemens Assisted with Stuxnet's Development, claimed by Iran ! A senior Iranian official accuses Siemens of willingly assisting the Stuxnet creators by providing the source code necessary for them to exploit its software. Iran's state news agency, the Islamic Republic News Service IRNA, quotes...

'The Hacker News' Magazine - Anonymous Edition - Issue 01 - April,2011 Download now !

'The Hacker News' Magazine - Anonymous Edition - Issue 01 - April,2011 Download now ! Link : 'The Hacker News' Magazine contacts : Mohit Kumar, Editor in Chief Email - [email protected] Facebook Profile - https://www.facebook.com/unix.root Twitter Profile - https://twitter.com/TheHackersNew...

Apple Hires New Security Chief

Apple has hired a software security expert to head up its growing internal security group. The company has hired David Rice, a former National Security Agency analyst and consultant on security issues, according to reports. Rice is currently the director of policy reform at the U.S. Cyber...

FBI Probes AT&T iPad Goatse Email Leak

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation has opened an investigation into the leak of an estimated 114,000 Apple iPad user e-mail addresses including those of Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, ABC ABC News anchor Diane Sawyer and NY Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Read the full article. IDG News Service...

Apple Desperately Needs an SDL Program

We’ve been saying this for years but there’s a certain desperation today for an SDL-type program at Apple. The security reality does not match Apple’s marketing/advertising and, as the Pwn2Own exploits show, the company is running around in circles trying to keep hackers at bay. Apple needs to...

HD Moore on Metasploit, Exploitation and the Art of Pen Testing

Dennis Fisher talks with HD Moore, the founder of the Metasploit Project and the chief security officer at Rapid7, about the evolution of Metasploit, the difficulty of client-side exploitation in the age of DEP and ASLR and the decision on when to publish an exploit. Podcast audio courtesy of...

Chief Content Management System (news.php) SQL Injection

Exploit for unknown platform in category web applications ======================================================== Chief Content Management System news.php SQL Injection ======================================================== 1-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-...

The 2010 Threat Landscape

Costin Raiu, chief security expert at Kaspersky Lab in Romania, discusses the state of the threat landscape for the year ahead, including botnets, malicious PDFs and targeted attacks. Please note: Raiu is referring to media reports that attackers may have stolen some of Adobe’s source code. Adobe...